About This Game It’s August 2021 and you're recruited by Nakagawa Corp., Japan's leading robot manufacturer. Agrihan, Nakagawa’s private island in the South Pacific was infiltrated. The robots are acting strangely. Agrihan ( Bot Colony) is a Mars testbed staffed mostly by robots - so you'll need to talk to THEM to investigate what happened.Bot Colony ( www.botcolony.com) is unique in that it's currently the ONLY game on the planet relying on AI-based conversation as the main game mechanic. You speak in English with robots (or type) in order to advance in the game. Bot Colony will appeal to players interested in genre-defining games with novel mechanics. If you enjoy figuring out how to get through to robots, command them through actions and investigate - you'll enjoy Bot Colony. The game is played in an eerie South Pacitic setting where modern architecture and robots contrast with the jungle environment. It integrates adventure, simulation, RPG and puzzles into a unique language-based gameplay with a great atmospheric soundtrack. You'll get to experience Artificial Intelligence that is currently in the realm of cinematic fantasy in Her, Ex Machina, iRobot, Blade Runner, 2001 A Space Odyssey. It's a challenging and entertaining experience that will make you realize how literally machines process language, and how much we take for granted when we speak with people.KEY FEATURESType of speak freely and discover the story using your own words. The answers spoken by the robots is generated dynamically. Contrast with typical game storytelling, where canned voice acting is controlled by dialog trees. Experience the eerie atmosphere of a South Pacific island featuring ultra modern architecture and robots amid a lush jungle setting. The techno-romantic mood is enhanced by the original music soundtrack of the game. Play detective and piece together the events that took place in a house in a 48 hour period by exploring the robot's video observations. Work with the robots to scuttle violent sabotage attempts by robot-hating organizations.Game sessions are unique to each player: What you say controls how robots react and what they answer. Sessions of other players will have different dialog than your session. Every session is unique.Make the game your own: Teach robots new knowledge and new commands. Speak or type. The Microsoft Cognitive speech-to-text does an amazing job understanding what you say, irrespective of your accent. When speech-to-text makes mistakes, you can easily correct them. You can combine playing through speech or text according to your preference. Inspired by Bot Colony sci-fi novel, a near future industrial espionage thriller by Eugene Joseph. The novel ( available on Amazon Kindle) explores the verbal abilities of future robots and introduces the 5th law of robotics 'do as people do'. 7aa9394dea Title: Bot ColonyGenre: Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early AccessDeveloper:North SidePublisher:North SideRelease Date: 16 Jun, 2014 Bot Colony Full Version Free pulsar lost colony bot inventory. bot colony download. bot colony walkthrough. bot colony game. pulsar lost colony bot setup. bot colony steam. bot colony free download. bot colony review. pulsar lost colony bot guide. bot colony gameplay. bot colony giant bomb Could play some time and the game is not bad i must say. It is absolutely not easy but the technique behind it is very interesting and it makes fun to play around.The interacting with objects is a bit hard and not that intuitive. Could be better.I like the graphic artstyle and how the robots look, the interior is fine too.Sad that they soon shut down the servers.I hope they can revive the servers at some point so i can play further, still hope i can understand how all that stuff works.And its too bad we couldnt speak to the robots, only write.. I bought Bot Colony a few years ago and I don't regret it even though the game is still in early access and probably will be for some time. This game is something completely different and unique. The developers of this game have succeeded in bringing to the market some completely new game mechanics that other companies are just dreaming about. They have come up with their own new AI mechanics for this game and made them part of the gameplay.I would recommend this game for people who:- Like games with new and unique approaches, new experiences- Like games\/genres with a bit slower gameplay (compared to fast paced action games)- Like to support a small company that works hard to start a completely new kind of genre of video games that will bring the whole industry forward- Are interested in AI, robotics, technology or scifi- Are interested\/prepared to play around a bit with robots and learn to communicate with them (Isn't really hard but not recommended for the most inpatient players or those that expect perfect AI that will be able to communicate with you like another human, the technology isn't really at that stage yet)- Are interested in playing a game with a lot to offer but that is still a work in progress and rough around the edges in some partsThe game is amazing as it is but would be even more great if the devs find a new publisher who will see the real potential of this game\/genre and the ambition and skills of these developers so we would be able to enjoy even more of their work in the future! There is no limit to the potential this genre and game series has with the right amount of work and money, I believe the technologies in the game will continue getting better and better with time. I believe this game is ahead of it's time in many ways, in the future there will probably be more games that attempt to add similar mechanics to their games. Right now this is the best you can find and a game worth playing if you are interested in AI or games that offer new and unique experiences.. Update: August 29th 2014 -- Is this game going to be updated? Not a peep?}]]]]-----UPDATE November 22nd 2018-----[[[[The NLU/chatbot deluxe is extremely sophisticated, but as a game, if you're a gamer, it's a pretty stiff experience needing a lot more polish and simply way more things to do in the game environment.Always felt like they needed more game design/game mechanics people on the team, instead of the extreme lean to experimental NPC chat. For a title that champions free form conversation with NPCs, it's overtly constricted and linear as a gaming experience.Yeah, conversational interaction is the main headline for the game -- but don't call it a "game" if you're not prepared to flesh out the UI, the art, polish the control and input dynamics, and more importantly - implement proper world interaction with some good, "gamey" content.The level design, pacing, and objectives are mind-numblingly deliberate for now. As in, outside the limited primary objectives, there's nothing substantial to do. No reason to explore off the critical path, no secrets, alternate paths, hidden NPCs, etc.It's so ripe for these things. I fear that the whole game will be super-linear and scripted.A shame, considering there's lot of potential for nuance and to add more puzzles/interaction in the existing environments.And ironic, considering how open-ended the potential is for North Side's incredible NLU engine. Besides all the impressive disambiguation of answers, it's a trip that these robots can be made to identify elements of their environment and respond to it.There's gameplay to be tapped into there, outside the hyper-scripted stuff.I fear the team simply lacks necessary game development staff to proceed at this point, but I remain hopeful!. The concept is really interesting: you can communicate with robots by voice or by text. Each robots have their own memories and experiences. This particularity give you multiples way to finish a “mission” and helps to increase the length of the game :)Sadly the server used by the game will soon be shut down because they didn’t sell enough copy, hopefully they will find a solution.If you manage to grab a copy play it and spread the words this will help North Side and show to others studio that games like this one have a potential. To conclude, the game is fun to play and it's really rewarding when the robots understand you :D. Bought it for the laughs. Still disappointed. so unawarte of my speech to text has to be in english and i do not have a windows 7 ultimate or enterpise wich makes it total unavble for me to play this game the proper way unfortunalyt but oh well another plenty's of money out the window guess i can't play it that's really bad pro's : looks like a very good game con's unable to get it to work because my pc is not in english therefor unable to work this should bee said more up front like a warning not every one is a geniusd on everything abbout windows on a side not it's strange my pc can't work since endwar was also speech to text but that did't care for my langues was not in english ... it looks like a sweet game but want to play it but can i no , not if 'ive buy a whole new win 7 ultimate wich is kinda foleish .. oh well Bot Colony Investigation (Major Update): THE FIRST REAL CONVERSATION GAME. Scheduled downtime and news: North Side (our studio) is moving this weekend, and as we're hosting the game on our servers, we need to take them down for at least part of the weekend.Some time next week I hope we'll be able to release an update containing checkpoints for Airport, together with more background story - you'll be able to ask the robots what they saw or heard prior to your arrival.Riot is coming along, and we'll post some shots from Riot development soon. Have a great weekened everyone!UPDATE SUNDAY OCTOBER 1st: Servers are now up again. Enjoy Bot Colony!. Bot Colony Heads Up: To react to recent posts, Bot Colony is still being developed. I'll summarize the game history for those who are new to this Community, and say a few words about our future plans.WHERE ARE WE NOW AND HOW DID WE GET HERE?When we released it in June 2014, we were 45. Now we're 7. If you go through old announcements, you'll see that the game came close to being shut down in January 2015. Recent posts complaining about jerkiness, frame rate, sluggish graphics - are unfortunately well founded. We won't be able to do much IN THE SHORT TERM. In a nutshell, we weren't lucky with our first 2 game engine choices. First we developed our own, called Anitron, until its architect (Glen Ozymok, recipient of an Academy Award) passed away in 2011 at a very young age. It took more than a year to switch to the Havok Vision engine. Then, Microsoft acquired Havok and discontinued Vision. Autodesk, who made HumanIK used for Inverse Kinematics (to get robots to grab stuff), shut it down. Ditto for Scaleform, used for User Interface. Bot Colony could have great potential if we had the resources to switch engines (again :) and go to Unreal 4 or Unity. However, the game never sold enough to support itself. In this situation, we need a partnership with another studio that believes in the potential of the game and wants to partner with us and help us change engines and improve gameplay. Or we need to make serious money in some other way.WHAT'S NEXT?We kept developing aggressively since 2014, but we focused mostly on our NLU technology, which is the unique thing about Bot Colony. It's also the technology we can control (as opposed to engine).We DO have the major parts of Riot working, but the Hunter Bot circles the Oil Rig at a frame rate that's simply too low. We decided that it was critical for us to keep making MAJOR advances in Natural Language Understanding (NLU). We're now working on a new game called Jimmy's World (see http://northsideinc.com/index.php/videogames/ ). Jimmy's World will be a free game using our next-generation technology platform. We'll launch it first on Steam and then on mobile and tablets. This is where our efforts are focused now. The technology from JW will be used in Bot Colony - but we'd really like to switch engines to benefit from all our work. If we can't offer a smooth game experience - similar to other 3D games, the game will never make it, never mind how great the conversation is and how smart the robots are. Microsoft have kindly given us the sources to Vision - but we'd rather work with a supported engine. We'll deliver on our promise to launch Riot, even if it has to be on Vision - but we won't do it before Jimmy's World is launched.FYI, we do have the story, assets, animations, etc for TWO episodes after Riot - one in the Old VIllage and one in the Hotel (if you read the novel), but it's premature to say more about that. Currently, Bot Colomy definitely qualifies as a labor of love.WHY BUY AND PLAY BOT COLONY?In spite of being rough around the edges, Bot Colony is a very unique game offering a very unique experience that simply cannot be had with another game: conversation as the main game mechanic. You can command robots through some fairly detailed actions, and you can investigate using your own words. You basically get 3 - 5 hours of gameplay in which you can have hundreds (we've seen > 400) of intelligent, relevant exchanges with robots, making progress in the game. And you can do this through SPEECH, that now works beautifully (you can also type). Is this worth fifteen bucks? Probably.. Love Stories All Ages Released: The new version of Negligee: Love Stories, releases today, it has been specially created so that there will be no region restrictions so that anyone can purchase and play the game on Steam.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1002100/Check it out now as it releases in less than an hours time.. Checkpoints in Intruder - April 28 Upgrade: Since the game was relaunched on February 21, we worked hard to offer you a smoother game experience. The main feature in this version are checkpoints in Intruder. You no longer have to finish the investigation (2 hours) AND the object placement (1 -2 hours) in one session. Just EXIT and then CONTINUE at a later time/date to continue playing from the last checkpoint. We create a checkpoint after every 4 Jimmy videos. BTW: Jimmy’s videos you uncoverd are listed like this (Thursday HH:MM, HH:MM, Friday HH:MM). Green HH:MM means you’ve seen all the videos in that morning, afternoon or evening, yellow HH:MM means there’s still videos to discover around that part of day. after every 3 objects replaced. A known problem we didn’t have time to address: if you’re in training and you restart from a checkpoint, training will restart from the beginning (Sorry!). For now, just Page Down to where you left off, or skip it if you finished it.OTHER IMPROVEMENTS Improved, shorter speech training ( got a earful about that :)) Fixed hang on return to main menu from gameplay Fixed screen resolution configuration problem Fixed ‘Cannot start Vision Application’ at startup We now have automated server monitoring to improve uptime A quick reference guide available from Store page linksWe’ll have another maintenance version soon to add checkpoint to Arrival, and make referring to objects easier.Following community feedback, the next major updates will be: Achievements improved Speech-to-text quality better understanding in Arrival (it’s not yet at par with Intruder) the Riot episode If you enjoy the game and would like to help, please write a short review on the Bot Colony Store page and Recommend the game. This is really important to us! Your positive review will help spread the word about the game. Thank you!. Community Support Keeps Bot Colony Alive!: After the Pulling the Plug announcement (Jan 28), we got lots of moral support from people saying the game must not die - plus $452 in Steam keys and $400 in eBook sales. This modest amount will enable us to keep going at least another month. Selling more Steam keys and eBooks is keyl to keeping the game alive, see http://steamcommunity.com/app/263040/discussions/0/606068060836404191/ for details. What would help us the most is you spreading the word about Bot Colony. We’ve started working on in-house servers as a long-term solution. When that is in place we’ll talk to Steam about putting back the BUY button on Bot Colony.Since the update, we’ve fixed missing background facts in Intruder and Charlie being stuck in Arrival. We've added checkpoints to Arrival so you won’t lose your level progression. Robot Visual Memories (RVM) offers (by far) the most interesting gameplay in Bot Colony - make sure you play it! You need to find out what happened since Jimmy arrived, and why the house is now empty. The tech behind RVM is described here http://gamasutra.com/blogs/EugeneJoseph/20140626/219765/Natural_Language_Understanding_and_TexttoAnimation_in_Bot_Colony.phpCurrently, few players get to RVM. Why? You get the RVM mission AFTER your score for Intruder is displayed and Arrival is unlocked - so most move on to Arrival. CHEAT: you can actually start playing RVM right after dealing with the police Bot; if the owner comes home and catches you, just re-start from the last checkpoint (every 3 objects).The Bot Colony experience is defined by how good Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is, so improving NLU is #1 for us. Lots of NLU work is still needed to make the robots in Arrival smarter. Mike's navigation has many problems, but you should be able to get him to do what you need. With enough sales, we may even be able to deliver more content (Riot and beyond – watch the Story Untold video from our Store page).Here are TIPS FOR PLAYING that everyone buying eBooks or Steam keys receives. Following these tips will result in a better game experience.TIPS FOR PLAYING. Beauty Bounce Release: Our new title by Brightly Studios for Dharker Studio 'Beauty Bounce' is now available on Steam at a reduced price for its release week.http://store.steampowered.com/app/372330/Checkout the game store page for the latest information on Tomo's adventures at the Beach Bounce Resort.. Major Update Launched today ( + Episode 3 Prototype Video): We’re happy to bring you a major update focused on what makes Bot Colony unique: language-based investigation. You now have a second mission in the Intruder episode: learn more about the family members and find out why the house was empty – by asking questions that will trigger Jimmy ‘s Robot’s Visual Memories (RVM’s). RVM’s are videos of significant events a robot (Jimmy in this case) witnessed. If you do well, you’ll see all the 14 RVM’s – your new challenge in Intruder, in addition to erasing all traces of the intrusion. You’ll be offered the RVM mission after you restore 18 objects to their original position (easier now since you can now Continue from the last checkpoint!). With this update, Bot Colony offers more than commanding robots – the focus of the previous version. Now, you can investigate using your own words to discover the key information you need to advance in the game. To do this, we made a major improvement to our Natural Language Understanding pipeline – temporal Question Answering. We’ve always wanted to bring you a credible experience of speaking with machines. We hope that this update delivers on this vision.We went to great lengths to reduce the percentage of IDK (I don’t know) answers. The key idea was to put in place a principle guiding what a robot should know: a robot should be able to answer questions about events that he experienced first-hand. Jimmy is now able to tell you how he came to know any item of information you’re uncovering (how do you know that?) – he’ll answer I saw it, or I heard it. To offer a completely credible experience, we’ve actually placed Jimmy and the characters in the scene, and then enacted the situations Jimmy observed using our text-to-animation technology: we moved the characters around like in a theatre performance and created a textual database out of their movements and utterances, that COULD have been used to drive our text-to-animation technology IF 1) we had IK for all the animations you’ll see (slapping, hugging, playing with toys, etc.) 2) animation quality was good enough. Since 1) and 2) are not yet there, the cut scenes were done by animators – but in principle they could have been generated just by commanding the characters to do what they do. The distances from Jimmy to another character he observes and the angles were logged during this enactment process, and you can query them. We’ve done this for 48 hours for the Intruder house. In the future, we may extend this to Arrival and other levels. By placing Jimmy in the situations he actually witnesses and recording what he saw and heard, we get more credible, complete and coherent information about what happened (Jimmy would be able to tell you who he saw at 11:30:41 on Thursday 27 August 2021, and that the distance was 10.3 m). This approach provides better coverage for question answering and reduces IDK – previously, Jimmy’s fact base had to be written manually. This is why this update took several months to release.We plan to continue investing in making our robots more ‘intelligent’, and enabling you to get to information irrespective of the words you’re using – this is what is unique about the Bot Colony game experience, that no other game offers. We appreciate any feedback about things that didn’t work as you expected. Finally, with this Update we’re also releasing a video of Riot (Landfall Episode 3) Prototype. In the Riot Humanity Test, you converse with robots about what emotions a certain situation is likely to trigger – their goal is to learn this to be able to able to react like a person ( simulate a person’s emotional behaviour through quasi-emotions, as described in the Bot Colony novel). All done through conversation, this is truly genre-defining gameplay!UPDATE FEATURES AND HOW TO PLAY. Major Update: Checkpoints everywhere, Big Brother unleashed, robot personalities, improved speech-to-text: This new update will be available December 2 at 2 PM EST, Ortwin [developer] will post under Discussions if available before Checkpoints everywhere. Bot Colony Major Update: Sorry it took so long! We’ve made some significant improvements. Please read KNOWN PROBLEMS - we need your feedback! We made the call to give you something NOW, even if not all the polish we wanted is there. NEW FEATURES
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